Author(s): Serap DURMUS, Sengül ÖYMEN GÜR
The methodology of re-reading and re-interpretation may be included within the realm of architecture, just as they occur in various other disciplines as well. Re-reading includes a reconstruction of the past with new perspectives and interpretations. Beyond its own internal problems, architecture deals with the concepts and topics gathered from other disciplines. The main problem area of this research subject, from the perspective of architecture, is the revealing of thoughts on architecture using textual language and exhibiting this through rhetoric reading.
The purpose and scope of this study is to ascertain the need for creating a ‘rhetoric’ as a form of correlation between discourse with a historical content and architectural practice. The method attempt which can be seen as a new dynamic for expression and comprehension, shall discuss the role of rhetoric, in expressing architectural thought.
Having experienced its golden ages during classical Antiquity and the Renaissance, rhetoric is defined as ‘an art possesed with the power of persuasion’. Historically speaking features regarding effective rhetoric have been identified and described; various canons have been determined through thinking based on the issue of style, and by adhering to various research that was conducted on this issue. Five unique canons of rhetoric (invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery) are discussed here as stages of methodological setup. This paper shall bring forward the issue of how re-reading and re-interpretation can be achieved using these various stages.
In line with this methodology attempt, we will try to explain through ‘rhetoric reading’, how narrations gain insight into architectural thought how architecture can be construed as a result of changes/developments in the meaning and style of discourse. And how the theory existing within architecture with its historical and theoretical aspects, use a unique ‘rhetoric’ method.
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